within the usa, eighteen percentage of ladies, six percentage of fellows, and 4 percentage of youngsters be afflicted by migraine complications. All races are affected, even if, for purposes that are unknown, whites are much more likely than African american citizens to be stricken with the situation, and Asian americans are least usually migraine victims.

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According to Daniel Goleman (1995), author of Emotional Intelligence, emotional hijackings take place all the time. The limbic system is usually involved to a great degree in these hijackings, which sabotage your rational judgment under moments of duress. The amygdala (Goleman 1995) is a part of the limbic system and is known as “the seat of all passion”. In essence, you can think of the amygdala as the ﬁrst-alert warning system of your brain. Your amygdala is connected via the hypothalamus to the sympathetic nervous system, 37 ASPERGER SYNDROME AND ANXIETY which in turn signals for the ﬁght-or-ﬂight reaction, even before the thinking brain has had a chance to process the situation (O’Connor 2005).

I know what my strengths and weaknesses are. ” Taking this attitude, Sheila is not viewing herself as a social failure. She’s viewing herself as a human being, someone with strengths and weaknesses. This foreshadows information you’ll learn later in this book, but keep in mind a lot of the anxiety and stress you experience happens in your mind, not in the real world. When you change your thoughts to mirror reality more accurately, you’ll free up energy that has been used on worrying. One thing you may have to come to accept as a person with Asperger’s is you will likely make more social faux pas than most people.

To put this in layman’s terms, our brains contain structures that keep us connected to our evolutionary past. This means we share some basic instincts with reptiles as well as rats and all other mammals. The primitive part of the brain is aptly labeled the reptilian brain or R-complex. We have this part of the brain we have in common with reptiles. It includes the cerebellum and the brain stem. 36 HOW ANXIETY WORKS AND WAYS TO CONTROL IT Higher on the evolutionary ladder is the limbic system or the “emotional brain”, which we share with mammals.